I have installed W2000 on E: drive and am attempting to install W98 on the C: Drive.

After W98 installation is complete I reboot choosing Windows 98 at dual boot screen. Win98 comes up and the only drives that show are A: C: and D:. I know that the E: drive is formatted as NTFS and will not be recognized by W98. Now I don't see the CD-Rom or Burner in My Computer. I go to Device manager and see that my Tekram SCSI Adapter is showing that it needs a driver update. I Update it to the latest drivers and reboot. This is where the problem occurs. When W98 starts up it goes to a blank light blue screen with only the mouse pointer showing. I cannot ctrl-alt-del out of it and have to hit the reset buttin to reboot. I have also tried doing a complete re-installation of W98 and come up with the same problem. To install W98 from c: drive I go to W2000 and copied W98 directory off origional CD to C:\Win98 directory, then startup computer with an old Windows 98 emergency boot disk. I then start install from Setup in Win98 directory.

How do I get rid of that blank blue screen and have W98 recognize my 2 CD Drives?

If no luck with above,
Disable all your SCSI devices in device manager/properties and check off box Disable in all hardware. Reboot and set up Win98.
When win98 is stable, reboot and let win98 find the hardware.
Update drivers if needed after that.

If no luck with above,
Disable all your SCSI devices in device manager/properties and check off box Disable in all hardware. Reboot and set up Win98.
When win98 is stable, reboot and let win98 find the hardware.
Update drivers if needed after that.

Temporarily disconnect your E: drive & resolve any conflicts in Win98
Shutdown & reconnect E drive
If this doesn't work try setting bios to Manual instead of Plug and Play
Enable reset resources in bios
Assuming there are no conflicts in Win2000
Above answers look good too. Try them first before you start disconnecting hardware

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As I mentioned in my opening remarks, the installation of the updated drivers for my SCSI Card started this blue screen lockup. The drivers are identical to the ones that tonnybrandt linked me to. The scenario that was described at that link was identical to what happened. i.e. W98 recognized my SCSI card as a different make. I installed the new drivers as perscribed and after reboot the system locked up on a blue screen. I also cannot boot to safe mode in W98. I will be trying other suggestions now.

As I mentioned in my opening remarks, the installation of the updated drivers for my SCSI Card started this blue screen lockup. The drivers are identical to the ones that tonnybrandt linked me to. The scenario that was described at that link was identical to what happened. i.e. W98 recognized my SCSI card as a different make. I installed the new drivers as perscribed and after reboot the system locked up on a blue screen. I also cannot boot to safe mode in W98. I will be trying other suggestions now.

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If you install Windows 2000 on a partition where an existing version of Windows NT 4.0 is already installed, when you boot into the previously installed version of Windows NT you may receive the following error message on a blue screen:

Tried this today successfully. Difference is all on one hard drive but in theory should be the same as in NT.

Format drives c: & e: as Fat32
Install Win98 first on drive C
Run 2000 setup within Win98 & choose to install on drive E without changing the format.
Take 2nd option of installing to different location rather than upgrading present system.
In our situation had no trouble seeing all drives with no conflicts booting to either operating system
I see the SCSI driver as a separate issue but wouldn't be surprised if you have no trouble with it in this configuration

Kudos to jamo for the idea of trying to emulate your situation as closely as practical. (If eventual points result out of this I'd like to see jamo get at least half)

I typically have three OS in my computer. i.e win98, winnt4 server and win2000.

If I was faceing the problem that you have i would have done the following steps:

1. Clean boot from win98 startup disk
2. After boot transfer the system using sys c:
3. remove the win2000 installtion driectory using deltree
4. remove the old win98 directory using deltree
5. copy the win98 cabs to a new directory on the c drive
6. delete the programfiles directory using deltree
7. now install the win98 first in the clean directory
8. i hope u will be able to get now only win98 working in pefect shape
9. after finishing the win98 installition now try to install the win2000
10. after u install win2000 go to disk management utility
11. give the e drive another drive latter
12. i hope since now u will have drive e later free to eighter use it with any of your cd dirves

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